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Medieval and Early Modern History
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Literacy, Culture and Migration
Kristina Richardson, City of New York University, USA This book uses mostly Ghuraba’-authored works to understand their tribal organization, professional niches, and their tribal language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition. Remarkably, the Ghuraba’ began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 272 pages HB 9781784537319 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755635795 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755635788 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I.B. Tauris
Narrating Muslim Sicily
War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World
William Granara In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. William Granara here focuses on the ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their identities in this turbulent period. Granara considers and translates a vast range of primary sources - from the chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khaldun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry - and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that transformed the medieval Islamic world, and the entire Mediterranean.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 240 pages • 4 colour in 4pp plates PB 9780755638543 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788313063 ePub 9781786726070 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9781786736130 • £26.09 / $35.17 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I.B. Tauris
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography
The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri
Ryan J. Lynch, Columbus State University, USA Al-Baladhuri’s Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands) is one of the most important sources on 7th and 8th century Islamic history. Questions over the text’s construction, purpose, and reception, however, have been overlooked in current scholarship. This is despite the text’s important historical material and its early date of creation. It is commonplace for researchers to turn to the Futuh for information on a specific location or topic, but to ignore questions over the text’s creation and limitation. This book corrects these gaps in knowledge by investigating the form, construction, content, and early reception history of al-Baladhuri’s text.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9780755644681 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838604394 ePub 9781838604400 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9781838604417 • £26.09 / $35.17 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I.B. Tauris
Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature
Pernilla Myrne, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Pernilla Myrne here explores Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals, examining a range of Arabic literature to shed fresh light onto the complexities of female sexuality under the Abbasids and the Buyids. Based on an impressive array of neglected medical, religious-legal, literary and entertainment sources, Myrne elucidates the tension between depictions of women’s strong sexual agency and their subordinated social role in various contexts.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 240 pages PB 9780755644698 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838605018 ePub 9781838605032 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9781838605025 • £85.50 / $112.04 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I.B. Tauris
History of the Arab Invasions
The Conquest and Administration of Empire
Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladhuri Edited by Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London, UK Translated by Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London, UK An important source of information for the history of government, landholding, and the economy of the early Islamic world, this new translation of Al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-buldan (Conquests of the Countries) is fully annotated with a scholarly apparatus and commentary on the places, events and individuals mentioned, will be essential reading for scholars and students of Islamic Studies and Middle East history.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 544 pages HB 9781788314190 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9780755637423 • £108.00 / $142.01 ePdf 9780755637416 • £108.00 / $142.01 I.B. Tauris
